“I thought even in the stand up with the punching, he out-punched
Conor. I thought his ground game was better. I thought that he was just a
better fighter all around and I thought that he just really, really dominated
Conor in every way and he won the fight fair and square.

“Do I condemn him for what he did after the fight? No. Even as a
diplomat I will say no. If you badmouth someone’s family, their wife, their
children, their mother, their father, their country, their religion, all bets
are off, and I would have done the same thing.”

The comments prompted an angry reaction from Danis who soon reached out to his own promotion team with a call to set up a fight with the 66-year-old.